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“Dis is a case of the pot calling de kettle black”
DEAR EDITOR,
For the last week I have been thinking…Is what these Ambassadors from the so-called first world really telling us Guyanese? I read their news release on September 18 and as a proud Guyanese I was not only offended but angry too. Here is what I was thinking.
To the Americans: Are you really in a position to lecture us? You who, in the early 1960’s to now, have “propped up” unscrupulous governments all across the world to protect your national interest? The Shah of Iran with his Golden toilet bowl and Noriega in Panama come to mind. Your unnecessary drug wars where your people were the beneficiaries. Really?
This is the same country that acknowledged outside interference in their last election process and is still debating possible Russian manipulation of that election with all the vast resources they have to prevent this. And the US wants us to name a date with no consideration as to whether our poor understaffed and underdeveloped GECOM can deliver credible elections and in what time frame. Name the date and then what?
Now we understand why our President kept saying I’m waiting on GECOM to say they are ready.
Where else in this world is there a President who has said he could shoot people on the streets of his country and do all manner of things to women and get away with it. In our culture you couldn’t even say it, much less be elected and get away saying it. Now the speaker of their house Nancy Pelosi is starting impeachment procedures against the same President. What a role model.
This is the same country who issues travel advisories to its nationals not to visit our so called “violent countries” when there is nowhere else in the world where you have a bigger chance of being shot and killed in a church, cinema, Walmart, shopping mall or gas station or worse yet a school. Just stating the facts. Really?
And now to the democracy of all democracies. The mother of the slave trade under which millions of our ancestors were violently taken against their will and executed in something they called the “middle passage”, with no apology or reparations, all in the name of money for the mother country.
Today we understand our scarred history and racial politics had its genesis from way back then. But today the Brexit debacle, to leave or not to, deal or no deal, highlights the challenge in getting consensus amongst political parties in a parliamentary system. Nothing better has emphasized this than the two-year-long battle in the British parliament and its two Prime Ministers.
Have we Guyanese ever lectured the Brits on the misfortune this situation highlighted to the world. Never. And finally, the event that prompted me to put this all down on paper- your court’s declaration that your PM misinformed your Queen and the proroguing of your Parliament was totally illegal! Really, are they in a position to lecture us?
And finally I hope the lady at the Commonwealth will send a letter to the Brits scolding them for illegally proroguing their esteemed Parliament and don’t forget to do a similar press release and send to the world!
Right now we may be poor, full of political challenges, but you all are no better. In Guyanese language “dis is a case of the pot calling de kettle black”.
Peter Joseph
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